“A client named Fatty showed us what not to do with a snapping turtle! Ouch!” Kimmel wrote. Mike “Fatty” Linne was coincidentally discussing how snapping turtles bite when the one in his hand lunged ...

By 2100 nearly three-quarters of the remaining gopher tortoise populations will be lost, the Service projects. “Without lifesaving Endangered Species Act protection for our gopher tortoises, urban ...

Gopher tortoises used to be fairly common ... They include the Florida softshell, the Florida snapping turtle, five species of mud turtles and four species of basking turtles, including several ...

In a formal peer-reviewed letter published today in Global Ecology and Conservation, experts in modeling and turtle biology detailed several errors in a population viability model that led to a ...